[PATCH] mka: Some bug fixes for MACsec in PSK mode

Badrish Adiga H R badrish.adigahr at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 01:57:10 PST 2017


Issue:
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The test setup has 2 peers running MACsec in PSK mode, Peer A with
MAC address higher than MAC Address of peer B. Test sequence is
1. Peer B starts with actor_priority 255
2. Peer A starts with priority 16, becomes key server.
3. Peer A stops..
4. Peer A restarts with priority 255, but because of the stale values
participant->is_key_server(=TRUE) and participant->is_elected(=TRUE)
it continues to remain as Key Server.
5. For peer B, key server election happens and since it has lower MAC
address as compared to MAC address of A, it becomes the key server.
Now we have 2 key servers in CA and is not correct.

Root-cause & fix:
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When number of live peers become 0, the flags such lrx, ltx, orx,
otx etc. needs to be cleared. In MACsec PSK mode, these stale values
create problems, while re-establishing CA...

Signed-off-by: Badrish Adiga H R <badrish.adigahr at gmail.com>
---
 src/pae/ieee802_1x_kay.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pae/ieee802_1x_kay.c b/src/pae/ieee802_1x_kay.c
index 1004b32..f420a16 100644
--- a/src/pae/ieee802_1x_kay.c
+++ b/src/pae/ieee802_1x_kay.c
@@ -2378,6 +2378,12 @@ static void ieee802_1x_participant_timer(void
*eloop_ctx, void *timeout_ctx)
                        participant->advised_capability =
                                MACSEC_CAP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED;
                        participant->to_use_sak = FALSE;
+                       participant->ltx = FALSE;
+                       participant->lrx = FALSE;
+                       participant->otx = FALSE;
+                       participant->orx = FALSE;
+                       participant->is_key_server = FALSE;
+                       participant->is_elected = FALSE;
                        kay->authenticated = TRUE;
                        kay->secured = FALSE;
                        kay->failed = FALSE;
--
2.6.1.133.gf5b6079



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